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Plant Mucuna pruriens (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Cowage; Velvetbean
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DOPA 1 Seed 2400.0 48000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 7000.0 63000.0 -1.07 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Seed 46000.0 95000.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GENISTEIN 81 Leaf Diffusate not available 8.0 -0.27 Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 19075.0 40440.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
GLUTATHIONE 7 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE 12 Seed 7200.0 15265.0 0.62 Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE 7 Seed 3275.0 6945.0 0.22 Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYGENISTEIN 0 Leaf Diffusate not available 26.0 1.39 Duke, 1992 *
INDOLE-3-ALKYLAMINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Seed not available 200.0 0.23 Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Seed 7500.0 15900.0 0.69 Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Seed 3440.0 3970.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN 20 Seed not available 100000.0 1.99 Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE 2 Seed 11875.0 25175.0 0.77 Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 715.0 30680.0 -0.65 Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 265.0 5800.0 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE 4 Seed 9700.0 20564.0 1.15 Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE 15 Seed 1875.0 3975.0 -0.09 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Dermatitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic 3 Duke, 1992 *
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Dopaminigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ectoparasiticide 1 Merck 11th Edition
Emetic 1 Martindale's 29th
Epinephrininergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Essential 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Euphoriant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Flatulent 1 Duke, 1992 *
FLavor 5 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 1 Geibel, M. 1994. Sensitivity of the Fungus Cytospora persoonii to the Flavonoids of Prunus cerasus. Phytochemistry. 38(3): 599-601. 1995.
Fungistat 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.